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619Anontology and the Issue of Being and Nothing in Nishida KitarōIn JeeLoo Liu Douglas L. Berger (ed.), Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, . pp. 263-283. 2014.This chapter will explicate what Nishida means by “nothing” (mu, 無), as well as “being” (yū, 有), through an exposition of his concept of the “place of nothing” (mu no basho). We do so through an investigation of his exposition of “the place of nothing” vis-àvis the self, the world, and God, as it shows up in his epistemology, metaphysics, theology and religious ethics during the various periods of his oeuvre – in other words, his understanding of nothingness that he takes to be the root of the s…Read more
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504"The Logic of Place" and Common SenseSocial Imaginaries 1 (1): 71-82. 2015.The essay is a written version of a talk Nakamura Yūjirō gave at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris in 1983. In the talk Nakamura connects the issue of common sense in his own work to that of place in Nishida Kitarō and the creative imagination in Miki Kiyoshi. He presents this connection between the notions of common sense, imagination, and place as constituting one important thread in contemporary Japanese philosophy. He begins by discussing the significance of place (basho) …Read more
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3996Social Imaginaries in DebateSocial Imaginaries 1 (1): 15-52. 2015.A collaborative article by the Editorial Collective of Social Imaginaries. Investigations into social imaginaries have burgeoned in recent years. From ‘the capitalist imaginary’ to the ‘democratic imaginary’, from the ‘ecological imaginary’ to ‘the global imaginary’ – and beyond – the social imaginaries field has expanded across disciplines and beyond the academy. The recent debates on social imaginaries and potential new imaginaries reveal a recognisable field and paradigm-in-the-making. We arg…Read more
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889World, Nothing, and Globalization in Nishida and NancyIn Leah Kalmanson James Mark Shields (ed.), Buddhist Responses to Globalization, . pp. 107-129. 2014.The “shrinking” of the globe in the last few centuries has made explicit that the world is a tense unity of many: the many worlds are forced to contend with one another. Nishida Kitarō, the founder of the Kyoto school, once stated that to be is to be implaced. We exist by partaking in “the socio-historical world.” More recently, Jean-luc Nancy has conceived of the world in terms of sense. What is striking in both is that the world emerges out of a nothing, created ex nihilo—the phrase stripp…Read more
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21Guest EditorialVera Lex 7 (1/2): 1-6. 2006.Editorial to accompany the entire issue on natural law and Asian philosophy which I guest edited.
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